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Madi Acharya-Baskerville works primarily with found/discarded materials to explore issues around migration and cultural differences. Her recent series of paintins/constructions make use of found images and text from newspapers and magazines often to be discarded themselves.
She is interested in the darker aspects of our response to a beautiful image - what lies beyond a beach lined with dreamy palm trees.
Education:
1999
Masters Degree, Fine Art, Cardiff Institute, University of Wales
Solo exhibitions
2008
Memories from Home, Citygate, St Clements, Oxford
Group exhibitions
2009 'Frontiere', Art-in-Situ, Atellier Bell, Drome, France
2008 Within Walls, Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock, Oxfordshire
2007 Umfeld<->Inwelt, Fraunmuseum, Bonn, Germany
2006 'Flight', Sroud House Gallery, Stroud
2006 Quest:The Artist as Pilgrim, Ovada Gallery, Oxford
Residencies
2009 Gosford Hill School, Commissioned by Kids@rt, educational charity, Oxford
2008 Eynsham Primary School, Commissioned by Kids@rt, educational charity, Oxford
2007 'Stories, Memories and Concepts', residency with Art-in-Situ, La Tour de Crest (prison tower), Crest, Southern France
Public commissions
2007 In-tent-city, commissioned to work with culturally diverse community groups to create a tent using discarded objects, South Parks, Oxford
2007 Public Art Mentoring Commission, East Oxford Health Centre, Oxford
Competitions, prizes and awards
2007 Grants for Arts Award, Arts Council England, For residency in France and Exhibition in UK, La Tour de Crest, France and Oxfordshire Museum, UK
2006 'Re-worked', Washington Gallery, Cardiff